Love
nounA deep feeling of affection, attachment, or warm care toward someone or something.
How to spell love
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce love
What does love mean?
- nounA deep feeling of affection, attachment, or warm care toward someone or something.
- verbTo feel deep affection or strong liking for someone or something.
Love in a sentence
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noun
Their love for each other only grew stronger over the years.
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verb
They both love long walks along the beach at sunset.
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noun
She felt a quiet love for the city where she had grown up.
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verb
Parents naturally love and protect their children.
Where does love come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This word descends from the Old English noun lufu, meaning deep affection or fondness, together with its matching verb lufian, meaning to cherish or hold dear. These came from a Proto-Germanic root *lubo, which is related to the same ancestral source behind Latin libet, meaning it pleases, and Latin libido, meaning desire. The spelling settled with a final silent e and an o standing in for what we now hear as a short u sound, a relic of medieval scribal habits that softened the look of the letter u next to other downstroke letters. Through centuries of continuous use it has stayed one of the most stable words in English, and it spread into countless compounds and idioms. Its old tennis sense of a zero score is widely said to come from the French l'oeuf, meaning the egg, because a zero looks like an egg, though this charming explanation is debated by scholars.
How the word is built
- lov- (from Old English lufu: affection, fondness)
- -e (silent vowel ending)
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